[kepler-dev] kepler hackathon 2004

[Edward A Lee]

This is a wonderful idea... We have a nice setup here, if the weather
is lousy enough: a room we can use continually for several days that
has a large table, a projector, a large format printer (good for
large UML diagrams, for example), a comfortable couch, a small fridge,
and a very good espresso machine...

Doing it here would also have the advantage that I could recruit
some of my students to help out...

We've often used this room for such hack-a-thons...

Edward


At 10:11 AM 2/10/2004 -0800, Chad Berkley wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I've been thinking about last week and how much rich, mark and i got done 
>in a short period of time by just sitting together with our laptops and 
>helping each other hack out code (or pipelines).  I'd like to propose that 
>a small number of us (maybe 5-8 people) get together in the next couple 
>months...maybe april, and have a hackathon...that is, a group extreme 
>programming session.
>
>I think if a few of us that are heavily involved in code development got 
>together in a room and just helped each other out, we could produce a lot 
>of code in a short period of time.  I think this would be especially 
>useful in fixing the interface problems that we've identified.  We could 
>break into subgroups to attempt domain specific problems as well.
>
>I talked with rich and mark about this last week and they seemed to think 
>it would be beneficial.  If the people with control of the money think 
>this is a good idea, I'd be willing to organize it.  Maybe we could have 
>it at a neutral location, preferably somewhere with crappy weather so 
>we're not tempted to want to go outside.  How's Omaha sound?  :)  I think 
>probably a 3 day session would be good...maybe 4, but I think after 3 days 
>of intense coding, we'd be pretty fried.
>
>Anyway, I wanted to throw this idea out there and see what other people 
>thought about it.
>
>chad
>
>
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